Debian: DSA-3654-1 Critical: Quagga Daemon Security Threats
debian
August 26, 2016
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in quagga, a BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon
Topics Covered
Summary
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in quagga, a BGP/OSPF/RIP routing
daemon.
CVE-2016-4036
Tamás Németh discovered that sensitive configuration files in
/etc/quagga were world-readable despite containing sensitive
information.
CVE-2016-4049
Evgeny Uskov discovered that a bgpd instance handling many peers could be crashed by a malicious user when requesting a route dump.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.99.23.1-1+deb8u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your quagga packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: quagga
CVE ID: CVE-2016-4036 CVE-2016-4049
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